Let's be perfectly honest about why the academy and PTO is so long. It's because some very simpleton government lawyers, the bottom of their law class making less than anyone they went to school with, think a higher number is better than a lower number. They think it makes you harder to sue because you have 26 and other departments have 24. Certain politicians assume that additional weeks of training will help officers not beat people up. Breaking news: thugs like Corder weren't the result of a